t like a flash the Sally 'Ann came luffing Into the wind, and then brought up all standing Afi tails Mr. Comstock.ahd touching his hat very cavalierly, '-Cap!. Spoonor,' says ho, my part of tho schooner's at anchor.' THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY. A few days sinco I stopped at a public house in Golerain, and while my horso was eating, 1 sat down iu ilia bar-room, and heard a sensible old man relate tho substance of the enclosed account. Dunne tho revolutionary war, tliare was.'a point of land on the Joraey side of the Hudson, and not far distant from New York, which was tho scene of a bloody conflict. There were about three hundred acres next to the river, from which the wood and timber had been cleared olT; back of this was a heavy forest. On this cloar ed point, a large number of fat cattle, des lined to, suddIv the American army, were placed. Four or five hundted yards dis tant in New Jersey, there were three thous and liffht infantry, under the command of Lafayette. I vas one of that detachment 'Our business was to seo that tho cattle wore not taken from the point by tho one tat. One morning, intelligence was brought into camp, that several vessels had ap proached the point, and that a largo body of British, soldiers' were landing. My rn- giraent wasordered to march immediately for the totnt. Rufus Putnam, n nephew of the old General, was our Colonel. Ho was well stocked with the Putnam mettle. Ho was a brave officer. I could never dis corn that ho was not just as self-possessed when goiug into battlo as when sitting in his tent. We made a hurried match and upon approaching the edge of the woods, the Colonel ordered the Adjutant to go forward and see whste the troops were and what was the number. Tho Adju taut soon returned, and reported they were forming in three columns containing about one thousand each, 'then, said tno Co lonel, 'ride back to the canp as soon as possible and tell Lafayette to como on.' When the Adiut&nthae. gone, Col. Putnam rode up to mr Captain, who vras Daniel Shays, ol insurrection memory, and sai he, 'Well, Captain Shays, shall we bo play inr with the unt'l the General comes. 'That must be an you please, 'replied Cant Shays. Oiders were soon given to ad vaacft to the open land upon the point. We now stood face to (ace to our foes. Tiring vary soon commenced. Cannon from the shipping in the river poured forth their vollies; and small arms did fatal exe 'ontion. Colenel Putnam rode back and 'forth in 'frontof his regiment, as calm as a man at home, though tho balls were whist ling past him in every direction. We had werked very fast, and for one regiment, made a great noise. The eorporal at my and leu dying, 1 was young, and a dying nan at my feet, bleeding and gasping, might causo my color to fade a little. Cap ta'm Shays stepped forward, 'George,' says ho, 'never minel it; I will take his place; and be was as good as his word, he took the corporal's gun and used it. Shays was tho best Captain I ever served under, He was bold aud kind; I was loading my gun the twenty-second time, when. Genoral La fayette with the main body of the light in fantry, issued from the wood. Never shall I foiget tho fadings of that moment. Wel lington was hardly more pleased to soe llUoher in tho battlo of Watorloo, than ws were to sse our brethsrs in arms. The main body formed at once, upon onr left. Lafayette rode forward (an excellent officer; anil never did he fill my eye so en tirely as at that moment,) though n strip pling in appearance, in action ho was a man; and had Cornwallis sssn him as wt then saw bias he would not have called him 'ihe boy.' As ho approached, 'Col. Put nam,' said he 'how dated you fire before I arrived!' 'Oh 1' said tho Celonel.'I thought 1 -would be playing wilh tbom a little.' 'Lafayette at that moment seemed full of energy and life; turning toward the line, and with a load, distinct voice, marked by his French accent, said he. 'We firo no more the whole line, charge bayonet, rush on ward and drive them where the devil drove the hogs.' The efforts of his presence and his wards was astonishing, every heart beat qnick and full. We did rush on, and such a scene ol carnage my eyes never saw. At first the British force oharged to meet us bnt they could not stand agajpst us, and Hod to the shore, we followed them and droro them into tho water; of tho three thousauu about fifteen hundred cot aboard the vessels. The rest waro slain and most of thorn at the point ol the cayonet. 1 have described to you tho most cnin fully interesting and horrid scene I had ev er witnessed. 1 never enjoyed killing man. 1 fought because I thought it to be my duty.' Greenfield Mercury. A PROFITABLE PRISON. r. CI I . vovenmr onannon, in ms late message to the Legislature of Ohio, gives the an ncxed account of the State Paniientiary ii appears io tie eeauneieu prosperous ly, by its present Warden. Tho toul cash receipts for the year ending November 30th are stalsd at 644,1)00. Total cash pay msnts 827,000. ? he entire earnings of tho institution, during the year amount to $52,000, which is a netl $20,000 above all expenditures for sppenulendance, Sic. Th number of convicts on tho 30th November was 480. Uut four deaths have occurred uuring ll(o year, 1 . , . ir THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Wo lay before our readers a statement of tho votes given for the Democratic candi dates at the last four Presidential elections, carefully collated from tho official returns. 1 ho immense superiority of tho volo of Mr. Van Duiien in 1840 over thai of any previous election a superiority as great as tho increased population it: 'the country could, upon the principle of o fair election, poseiblv justify, cannot fail to trike the roa der. We have also compared it with the results of the State elections in tho several ynars since 1830' including that of 1839; when the Democracy, after iierco contest, carried three-fourths of tho states of tho Union, and find that Mr. Van Buren's vote greatly transcends also the Democratic vote on ei ther of those occasions, Thcro are, alsn, particular portions of tho statement, which go to show the zeal and power with which the democracy havo turned out at the recent eloction, in defenco of their principles. Whilst General Jackson was elected in 1828 by n majority of 137,870 in 1832 by a majority of 137,524, it appoara that the Democratic vote in 1840 is vury nearly equal to tho coinbinad vote of Gen. Jackson in 1828 and 1831. Again : Gen. Jackson's majority in Penn sylvania was 50,000. Mr. Van Buren loses the state, although his rote in 1S40 was 42,000 moro than Gen. Jackson's in .1820. Although Mr.lVan Buren's vote is fotru- five thousand seven hundred and four more than it was in 1830, when ue carried tuo tho state of New York by twenty-eight thousand, ho now loses it by thirteen thous and 1 Another rsmarkblo fact is that Mr. Van Baron's popular vote on the Elecmrial tick et in 1840 mors than doubles tho Federal electoral vote nf 'l828,and also that of 1832, 8nd nearly doubles tho Federal voto of 1830. General Jackson, received throughout1 the Union, in 1828, 051,929; in 1832, 087, 011. Martin Van Buren received, in 1S30, 704,205, in 1840, 1,125,781. Globe. NORTH AND SOUTH. The Whig legislature of Connecticut, the other day, following 'in tho wako of Vermont, passed resolves in favor of reviv ing tho protective system. This is Hani-, sonism on one side. The Whig legislature of Georgia have lately passud tesolves, against the protec tive system. This is .Hanisouisut on the other side. Plio legislaturo of Georgia, havo also ra- olved against a Bank. - Tartnw- -rruttr lc'l.tu. ( M.;... will, it is said, resolve in favor of one. Ihe Hbrrisburg convention coitainly. stands justified in refusing to ' mako any goneral declaration of the visws of the op position parly,' by the best of all imagina bio reasons. ' The thing was an irupossibil- In tho peculiar conjuncture of affairs, it is even thought that Gen. Harrison will de cline tho delivery of an Inaugural Address, which by forcing him upon the forbidden ground of declarations for the public eye,' might by his friends, bo ' deemed impolitic One Day for Elections. A resolution has been introduced into tbo House of Rep resentatives of Ohio instructing the United States Senators from that State, and. reques ting their members in the lower house of Congress to endeavor to procure the pass age of a law, fixing the same day or days throughout the United States for tho choico f Presidential electors. The nresent nlan admits of a great deal of fraud, which might easily be prevented if elections in all the States were held on tho same day. If the facilities for transplanting illegal votes houli not he cut off entirely, they would be greatly diminished. Pennsylvanian. Re-Nomination of Mr. Van Buren. A resolution was offered in the Missouri Leg islature, ordering tho appointment of a com mittee. " to report an address to Mr. Van Buren, President of the United States, ex pressive of the respect of the General As sembly of Missouri for his character.public and ptiv&to. and their approbation of his administration, and confi dence in his abili ties, patriotism and disinterested devotion to the public good, and also, to nominate him as the democratic candidato for tho Presidential election of 1844." . gjWI iff TtamBTI Maryland. The finances of this State seem to bo much embarrassed. Bv the racsaiga 01 wia uovernor, uciivereu on -f,t. ... . Wednesday last, it appears that the Sate dobt is nlready 815,109,000, and will short ly b ineiessed by the issue of 3237,000 worth of authorised stock. The expenses of tho Stale will exceed its revenue for the ensuing year by $171,000, and it is compu ted that flfter the present year the income will fall 8000.000 short of tho expenditures. Notwithstanding this, tho Governor onno- ess the distribution of the public land among the Slates, and argues that the State should depend upon herself alone, for tho pay mont of her debts and the prosecution of her nub He works. Ihe messazo discusses this and other subjects with much force and ability, and is altogether an interesting doc uruent. Spirit of (he limes, Interesting Incident, The Mllledge villc Standard of the 24lh ull., rolates,lho following : In tho examination before tho Legislature, of the claim of 'James Hunter, to tho legislative clelnCmcy Or pardon, for the crime of murder, committed 6a U. Lovo- joy, Mr. Jones, Senator from the county ol Paulding, nisuo me loiiqwing statement, which he ssid he had not heard contradicted " Aftor tho conviction of Hiiuter.he was visited in his pnsoit by hie wife. During one of her visits, 'aha clad herself iu his dp parol, and ho dressed himceU up iu hers; and in that disguise made his esoape. Af ter soma hours tho affair was discovered) and the jailor detained the wife in prison, as being accessary to the escape of hor hus band. Hunter, hearing in some way that his wife was kept in jail, came forth volun tarily, and gave himself up to the proper authority, to suffer upon the gallows, in or der to relieve an affectionato and confiding wifo from the walls of u prison." Such conduct is truly ennobling even iu a felon, and tho mention of it croated a doep emo tion in tho legislative halls. Hunter was pardoned by the Legislature, and has been restored to the bosom of liis family. And wo sincerely hope thit his subsequent con duct will prove him not unworthy of the enjoyment of thoao.civil privileges to which he has been again restored. Litsus Nalunc A correspondent of the Portsmouth (V.) Chronicle gives tho follow ing account of a singular freak of nature. Ho is a physician of character, and vouch-, es for the truth of it. A negro womau in the country of Math ews, Va., delivered, on the 25th of Noveaa ber, of threo children. Ono was a perfect ly formed child, and is now living and hearty. Tho other two are a lusus naturx, more remarkable in every respect than the notorious Siamese twins. They havo each a nerfect formation from the cord of the crown of tho head. They havo four per fect arms, two separate heads, complete in their organization, and 'two chests. The formation flora' the umhlicus downwards, is that of a. single child. There is only one abdomen, oncumbilicpl cord and two legs with one organization of the male ssx. They wore living until a low moments he fore birth. They must have possessed two hearts and two separate pulmonary eigans with only one set of intestines and lower extremetics. They have been keptio spir its for preservation, with tho intention o nresentin? them to a museum of some mod ical college, and consequently have not been uissemeu. From the Globe. THE MASQUERADE IS OVER. Gen. Harrison, pending the election, wore different visers to suit his aspect to every party and to all his leading parti sans. His public avowal to the aspirants r-iU-f oau1ncyamari(f tjja latlur, Was thai no human being should ever know which of them ho preferred as successor And now it appears from the report of his own friends, accredited and promulgated by the presies which support him tho Louisville Journal, and tho Philadelphia Gazette that he considers "Mr. Clav tne fittest man in the nation for the Presi dency; and that he would himself resign the office at once, on his arrival at Wash' inctan, were it possible for him, bu to do- ng, to confer it on the distinguished Ken luckian." Of course, he will do all he can, by holding tho office of President, to coiifct it on the. fittest man for it, as he can not accomplish that object by resigning th? lation. A public entertainment was pivon the other day at tfersalires, Kentucky to Gen. Harrison. In the course of it the Presi dent elect rose and gave a toast in honor of Heury Clay. In. the eloquent remarks with which ho accompanied ihe sentiment, he stated, ss'thc editor of the Louisville Journal was informed by one of his audi tors, that ho considered Mr. Clay the fitlssl man in the nation for the Presidency, and he himself would resign tho office at once on his arrival at Washington, were it possi ble lor him by so doing, to comer it on the distinguished Kentuckian. Philadelphia Uaz. Domestic Embargo. A bill is now pen ding in the Lrgislaturo of Georgia, and will probably become a law, intended to placo an embargo on the commerce of Maine with that Slate. The cause of this mocement is said to be the refusal of the latter Slate to surrender curtain persons charged with feloniously taking away slaves from the former. The bill provides that after the first day of Maroh next, every vessel from Maine, which visits the waters of Georgia. shall perform a quarrantin of ono hundred days, and during that time no ene of the passengers, officers or crow, shall be per mitted to leave tho vessel, on any account under a heavy penally. The quarantine ground is to be not within threo mil.es of any seaport, city, town or hamlet within the Stale. The penalty for an infringment of oi tne law is punishment in the penitentia ry not les3 than five, nor moro than ten years, Spirit of the Times, SSSESSSHRtHS Another Mys,ttriaus Disappearance. A resprcijble.yptmgmnn from Bangor, Mo. nomed Henry, noves, lately left his board ing houso in New York to take a walk, and has not been sinco heard of. Ho had a large sum of money on his person flr.d, be ing of exceedingly correct hab'jls, fears are entertained for his safety. t WEIGHT OP MILITARY MEN. The follnwinir memorandum was found a number of years ago in tho pocketbook ot unoiuccroi trie Massachusetts imu ; August 18, 1783. Weiahed at the scales at West. Point. Genoral Washington 209 lbs. General Lincoln 221 Gcnetal Knox 280 General Huntingdon 132 General Gronlon ,100 . Colonol.Swift . t 210 , Colonel Micheal Jackson 252 Lt. Col. Huntington 232 , Lt. Col. Cobb 180 Lt, Col. Humphreys 221 It appears from the above, that tho avor ago woight of theso eleven distinguished Revolutionary officers, was 214 pounds. The heaviest weight having been Genoral Knox, who weighed 280 pounds and tno lightest Genoral Huntingdon, who weighed 122 pounds. It is somewhat singular that tho biographers of eminent luon, uever un less under oircumstances of a peculiar char acter, record tho wcisrhl or dimensions nf tho cIst tonenonts, which were the abodo of their immortal spirits. CIDER. THE TWO CANCERS. A few years since, a revolutionary sol dier in this county, who retained to advanc ed age the appolite fer strong drink, which Was probably fust kindled by tho mistaken liberality of tho government, who supplied the poison, afGictud with a cancer. He was told by his physician, that if ha woud a bandon the use of strong drink, and pursuo the measures he pointed out, it was pioba ble its severity might bo mitigated, and his life prolonged. But bo could not; at least he did not resist the cravings of the deprav ed appetite, and he soon ended his days in agony. Auother man had a cancer begin to davelopo itsolf upon his face at tho age f thirty-live. Hetreraarkod that a single glass of cider would occasion that pqculiar twinging pain, which oharaclerizos this decease. Ho immediately abandoned the use of every thing that contained alcohol; was careful as to his diet, lived to old age, and never experienced and serious incon venience from his cancer. Maine Gasetle. Truth It Potvar. Some meii say that wealth is power, some that knowledge is power, so'ua talent is power; but their is an apothegm that I would placo on high a Jborn them all, when I would assert that Truth is power. Wealth cannot purchase, talent refute, knowledge cannot over-roach, antbority eannot silence her; thay, all, like Felix, csnbla at her presence. Maine Elections. Who late elections in Maine seen to have been contested with mora than usual warmth on both sides- Th prtiet, are nearly balanced in the Stats, anil in many of the districts a few scatter ipg votes have occasioned sovoral ropoti-. lions oi tno ballet, by denying a majority on the first trials to either candidate. In ihe Hancock and Washington district three ineffectual attempts were made to elect a member of Congress, and tho fourth was decided by a majority of one vote only, in fsvnr of Joshua A. Lowell, tho dowocratic mudidate. This fact while it proves the sincerity with which tho different parlies maintain their respective opinion, also il lustrates the importance of a singlo voto. Pay of a Legislator in Georgia. Tho Georgia Legislature have passed a resolu tion fixing the pay of its members at five dollars a day, and the same amount for evo ry twenty miss travej in coming or going ff tho seat of Government. Girls Head This.' Health, says tho ed itor of tho N. Y. American, is tho most in available of all blessings; without it, life is a cheorless void; and' health can only be preserved by attontion, as well to shoes'and stockings, as to tho other essential articles of winter apparol. Russia. Contains n population of 00, 000,000, who speak 29 different languages. Her chief metropolis, now containing a pop ulation of 000,000, was little better than it morass 20 years Hfier tho foundation of Pennsylvania by Penn. There aro 40,000.- 000 slaves, the properly of tho Czar or his nobles, the whole number of the latter class being about 800,000 in Russia. Population ot Rhode Island 108,837 in 1830 97,100. Increase 11,038. Per sons over 20, who cannot road or write, 1,- uuu. Population of Maryland 407,507 in 1830, 417,040. Increase 20,527, Balti more city pontains 102,518 persons II, 380 whjte parsans over 20, who eannot read or write iu tho state. The population of the state of Indiana, at the census of 1840, is 683.314. She can afford a high ratio, and still havo ait in crease of Congressional representation. Population in 1830, 343,031. Increase nearly 100 per cent. Quite a Furnace. Elna has been con sidered the Irrgcst volcano in tho world.but from communications recently made to the ueograpnicai society ol Ureat Unlian, appears that Kirncn, a burning mountain in Owyhee, one of tho Sandwich Islands, uas a crater oi more man nine miles in circumference.- The Mimhrer of Ellen Jewil. Rnlil. 8on( tho murderer of Ellen Jewit, went to Texas, where ho has sinco lost his right arm that arm with which ho planted a hatchet into llio forehead of h frail but to him ait unoffending girl, and with which ho then applied an iucendiary torch to tho bed where she lay walloring in uloou, thus at- leinpttiig to conceal tho murder by commit tine arson that right arm, we say, has been . . , ,....- !.. r. . . ..... . ole 1 1 ironi ins snouiuur, in a iigm Willi the Mexicans. Jllbuny Journal. A Sailer's f.ifc.Hy an abstract from tho Journal of the American Seaman's Friond Society, wo learn tho disasters which have occurred to American vessels on tho coast, during tho last twclvo months, and the perils anil hardships a sailor suffers.' Tho number of vessels wrecked amount to 521, and are classed as follows: Ships and barques 67; brigs 120; schooners 133; sloops 14; stoamboats 0; class unknown Ql. The greatest number wero lost in January, viz: 211. Tho, next highest number was in October 44. It has boon asccitiiucd thai upward of seven hundred lives were lost in tho wrecks of the several vessels mentioned above. National Debt.0( tho (oi Nationnl Debt of the United Slates there remnina un claimed and undischarged, 335,892 48. Much of the largest portion of it is for in- torost. There has been called for and paid on nccnunt of tho debt, during the past year, abtfUf $12,000. Distressing. A child of Mr. Downs, of Bennington, Vt. while playing "hanging," in the absence of the parents, recently hung a little girl aged two years, in earnest. The children ran for help, but it came loo late. Georgia Silk. Two Judgos of the Su perior Court of Macon couuty, Georgia, r u- contly appeared on the bench iu full suits of silk manufactured in their own famtlius. An oxcollentoxamplo of native industry and prido. Charity. "My friends," said a minister the Sunday after a monstrous small contri bution, "when I said that charity was tho lovo ol our species, I fear you understand ma to say specie. I trust on this occasion you will not labor under tho same nistuce. Luminary Justice. Mr. Thomas E. Clark, of Crittenden county, Arkansas, was brutally murdered by two of his slaves, a week or two since. When the murder be came known, the citizons in a body turned out and apprehended tho nogrosH, and hung them ou tho nearest tree. Steamboat Disaster, Tho Post Boy bHrst one of her boilors while towing tho ship St. Louis out of the Mississippi on tho 19th tilt, by which tho first engineer was killed and several others sovercly scalded. TVic fFrong Animal. A man at Que bee, the other day, iu attempting to drown a dog in the river, slipped in himself and was drowned. His body wont under the floating ice and could not bo rocoverod. LARGE ARTIFICIAL LAKE. The Cleveland Herald says that tho grand Canal Reservoir in Mercer County, Ohio, covers 13,000 acres ef land, tho wa ter from 4 to 27 feet deep. It is said to bo the largest artificial lake in the world. THE subscriber would respectfully in form his sustbmers and tho public goner ally, that he has just received from New York: Platos of Fashions and drafts for cutting garments, by which he is enabled to cnt in the newest fashions not only of New York, but of Loudon; and make up in the first stilo for A'utumu and Winter wear. The Subseriber returns his sincero thanks for past favors, and respectfully solicits a continuanco, promising on his part, every exertion to ronder general satis faction. BERNARD RUPERT. Ble-msburg; Nov. 28, 1840. LIVERY AND EXCIIAiVGE. ERy respectfully informs his fncnJa ami tho jmlilic, that ho has ajtv aysonhand, at tho M- wij aiamo in uioomsDurg, lor Hie purpose of Htro or BxcUnngo, a vaiiety of Eaoi'scs, Sulkies. ig-s, WAGONS. AND Sl.i'.inirs which ho will feci gratified to kpep in readiness for the accommodation f customers. lie has also maijo arrangements for carrying V"' scngers from Btoomsburg to Muncv. and from uiuuuiiuuiB iu uucKitiews on mo uwego turnpiKe. uiuoiiisuurg lor JUuncy every Saturday at T o'clock In tho morninir and arrii'o at Muncv Si WW K-7JL muAZ2Ay& AND NEW. the famo evening. Lcavo Muncy every Saturday L mornius at 8 o'clock and samo evening. Leaves Dlocinsburg every Wednesday morning for Huckalcws and return the samo day. Personal application can be rnado at his residence, when every looans wilt boused to render entire sat isfaction to Uiono who may give him a call. , , , NOAH S. I'KBNTIS. BIoomAurg, March 28, 1810, 18.
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